DIFFERENT FORMS OF PRAYER CONTINUE

• Prayer is essential for God’s will to be done on earth.
• In 1 Timothy 2:1, we find four kinds of prayer which comprehend all aspects of prayer.
• It is interesting that each of these four words is used in the plural: supplication, prayers, intercession and thanksgivings.
• The word supplications primarily mean need. It is about asking or entreating or beseeching.
• There is a sense of need and earnestness in asking or appealing because of that need.
• This is not just asking something of God; it is an earnest appeal to God.
• Unless we supplicate the Lord, unless we enquire of Him, unless we appeal to Him on the basis of urgent need, we shall never know His mind about it.
• And because we do not know His mind, we shall be threshing around in prayer, using many words and getting nowhere.
• Enquiry of the Lord is fundamental to all prayer.
• Only when we have enquired the Lord, will we have the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God.
• Then we won’t have to play around.
• The second word is prayer. This is the most frequently used term in the New Testament and is the general word for prayer.
• Literally, it means: pouring out. You pour out all the need. You pour out all the hurt. You pour out all the feeling.
• The third word is intercession: The word used here carries the idea of petitioning a superior – a king, a magistrate, a prince – someone with authority. The idea is of petitioning someone who has the authority to do something.
• We are seeking the presence and hearing of God on behalf of others of for situations in which we are all involved.
• In some ways this is the deepest aspect of prayer and the least experienced. Intercession is not just a few words mouthed on behalf of someone else, but should involve our spirit, our soul, and our body.
• It is a 24 hour stand in front of the Lord. Never devalue the word intercessor. I believe that you come nearer to the heart of God when you are prepared to be an intercessor than anything else you do.
• Our yearning must be when we pray to be in the presence of God for personal understanding of His Word, for knowledge of His will, and for the capacity to hear and obey Him.
• It must be much more than uttering some requests.
• We must long to hear Him and respond to Him with our whole being.
• Prayer must get deep down inside us moving our spirits in passions toward God. It was that for Jesus.
• Prayer was the spiritual habit of Jesus.
• It was part of His life. Our yearning must be when we pray to be in the presence of God for personal understanding of His Word, for knowledge of His will, and for the capacity to hear and obey Him.
• It must be much more than uttering some requests.

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